Cigar-cutter and match-receptacle.



PATENTED DEG. 3, 1907.

' G. W. ANSLEY.

CIGAR CUTTER AND MATCH REGEPTAGLE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR.29,1907.

J/VVENTOR A/Iorney UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. ANSLEY, OF MEDICAL LAKE, WASHINGTON.

CIGAR-CUTTER AND MATCH-RECEPTACLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 3, 1907.

Application filed March 29 1907. Serial No. 865,403.

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in combined cigar cutters and livered singly from a receptacle simultane.

ously with the action of a cigar cutting knife. The invention comprises various details of construction and combinations and arrange-.

ments of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and then specifically defined in the appended claims.

I illustrate my invention in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view transversely through the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the cylinder and cigar cutter which is fixed to the shaft of thecylinder. Fig. 4 is an end view of the cylinder. Fig. .5 is a detail view of a part of the side wall of the receptacle which is adapted to separate the matches.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates a receptacle in which matches are adapted to be held, and B is a shaft mounted in the end walls of the receptacle.

D is a cylinder which is loosely mounted upon the shaft B and is adapted to turn in an opening formed at the lower ends of the inclined walls A and A of the receptacle.

Said cylinder is provided with a longitudinal groove C of sufficient size to receive a match. A spring T is mounted in an annular recess T formed in said cylinder, the purpose of which spring is to cause a match to be thrown out of the groove C when the cylinder is turned so that said groove will be outside of the receptacle thereby allowing the match to fall and be caught by the flanges A Fixed to one end of the cylinder is a pin F to which one end of a coiled spring F is fastened, the other end of the spring being secured to the shaft B. The other end of the cylinder has a pin D projecting therefrom, as shown in Figs. 2 and 8 of the drawings, and E is a disk having a shoulder E in its circumference adapted to contact with the pin D to return the cylinder to its starting position. A spring D is fastened at one end to the shaft and its other end to the end of the box A, as shown clearly in Fig. 3 of the drawings,

the purpose of said spring being to return the shaft after being depressed for the purpose of rocking the same to deliver a match.

Fixed to the shaft is an arm 0, the end of which is formed into a cigar cutting blade 0 adapted to shear against the marginal edge of the opening R in the top of the casing, as shown clearly in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and provided so that each time the lever is depressed for the purpose of delivering a match, said cigar cutting blade will shear over the marginal edge of the opening for the purpose of cutting the end of a cigar inserted therethrough.

In operation, the matches within the receptacle will fall in contact with the circumference of the cylinder and but one match will be allowed to fall in the groove C because of its size. The point at the lower end of the partition wall A will separate the matches from the one which will have fallen into the groove, and when the shaft is rocked, the cylinder will rotate and when the groove in the cylinder passes outside the wall of the casing, the spring in the annular grooved cirmatch out of the groove and the match falling by gravity, will be caught by the flanges outside the receptacle.

in between the cylinder and the casing, the cylinder may stop while the shaft upon which it is mounted may rock still further, and on the return movement of the shaft, which is actuated by the spring connected at one end thereof and its other end fastened to the receptacle, will return the shaft to its normal position, and when the shoulder upon the disk which is fixed to the shaft contacts with the pin upon the cylinder, the latter will be rocked back to its normal position.

What I claim is A combined match box and cigar cutter comprising a receptacle, a rock shaft mounted within said receptacle, a cylinder fixed to In the event of the, cylinder being clogged by matches wedging cumference of the cylinder will throw the said shaft and provided With a longitudinal groove to receive a match, a spring seated in an annular recess formed in said cylinder, an inclined partition Within the receptacle having a contracted pointed portion Which is positioned adjacent to the circumference of said cylinder, a coil spring fixed at one end to said shaft and the other end to said cylinder at one end thereof, a disk fastened upon said shaft and having a shoulder upon the circumference thereof, a pin fixed to the cylinder and against Which said shoulder is adapted to contact, and a blade fixed to said shaft and adapted to shear against the marginal edge of an opening formed in the top of an 15 extension of the casing, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE W. AN SLEY. WYitnesses:

R. I. DAIR, B. W. HUGHES. 

